. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. Tany. abU. Or tiK edgUi. Aspenden Hall : Garden Front Albreda to the Valognes family and thence to the Fitz ; Richard de Sackville, who was tenant of this manor in 1086," was succeeded by William de Sackville,'" who was probably his son. On the death of William his lands descended to his nephew Richard de ; By 1224 the Anstey lands in Aspenden had descended to Nicholas de Anstey," whose only child and heiress Denise took them in marriage to Wanne de Mon- ; By the beginning of
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. Tany. abU. Or tiK edgUi. Aspenden Hall : Garden Front Albreda to the Valognes family and thence to the Fitz ; Richard de Sackville, who was tenant of this manor in 1086," was succeeded by William de Sackville,'" who was probably his son. On the death of William his lands descended to his nephew Richard de ; By 1224 the Anstey lands in Aspenden had descended to Nicholas de Anstey," whose only child and heiress Denise took them in marriage to Wanne de Mon- ; By the beginning of the 13th century a subfeoffment of the manor had been made to the family of ; Peter de Tany, who was Sheriff of Essex and Herts, in 1236," died before 1255, and his lands descended to his son Richard de Tany," who died in 1270,'' then to the latter's son Sir Richard de Tany," who died about 1295.'^ Roger de Tany, son of Sir Richard,'" who died in i 301, left a son Lawrence, aged two, as his heir.'' Lawrence de Tany died without issue in 1317 and Aspenden passed to his sister ; After this date there is no further trace of the Tany family holding any rights in Aspenden. Their tenancy was already a mesne one in 1255, when the manor was held as a knight's fee ot Richard de Tany by Ralph Fitz Ralph," whose father Ralph son of Fulk had held land in ; Ralph Fitz Ralph apparently forfeited his lands, for his wife Maud received a grant of certain of them, including 60 acres in Aspenden, in ; By 1303 Aspenden had de- scended to Ralph's son William Fitz Ralph.'' In 1317" and 1324 " the manor is returned as held by William Fitz Ralph, and in 1340 his son William Fitz Ralph settled it on himself and his wife Sybil.'' This William died before 1356, when his heirs were his daughters Margaret and Sybil, who were ; The manor of Aspenden, however, descended to a William Fitz Ralph, who in 1383 granted
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